The question that disturbs me is that if it's only Chinatown or the whole city?

I'm thinking size wise, just a portion of LC, and when I read about the game via RN's mailer, I instantly thought of GTA3, despite the flaws of the Triad there, they have an alarming quality and it just always seemed intimidating to me. I enjoyed that about GTA3, their vocals/speech still rings in your head when you think about them!

Rown

I personally could play as any triad. Maybe work your way up from street thug to more classy triads and then... go to war?

I think this game should at least make me chuckle becaue of the game. I think it would be hillarious if they made it a parody of sorts about Triads... and then at the end you find out "Chinatown Wars" was a movie that Niko was watching at a theatre.

Skimask101

That's what you say until they cut your thumbs off and break your kneecaps. o.O

The Mafia is powerless nowadays. They are extinct, people like Rudy Giuliani put them away in prison. The only mafia powerful enough to even try to break anyone kneecaps are the Russian Mafia and there even deteriorating. Organized crime is a dead business my freind. Its all about Cooperate criminals now.

Gabriel Constantin

I agree though, The Mafia are overrated. How about a Grand Theft Auto that isn't centered around The Mafia? GTA 3 pretty much was, Vice City had you playing as an ex-Mafiso against a Mafia Don, San Andreas had you working for the same Mafia Family you did in GTA 3 and LCS was nothing but wall to wall Mafia! Even GTA IV had you working for The Mafia, it's like Rockstar ran out of ideas half way through the storyline and went: "I know, let's put the mafia in there!"

There's so many criminal organazations that have seemed to disappear off Rockstar's radar: The Yakuza, The Triads, The British Football Firms, etc.

Skimask101

I agree though, The Mafia are overrated. How about a Grand Theft Auto that isn't centered around The Mafia? GTA 3 pretty much was, Vice City had you playing as an ex-Mafiso against a Mafia Don, San Andreas had you working for the same Mafia Family you did in GTA 3 and LCS was nothing but wall to wall Mafia! Even GTA IV had you working for The Mafia, it's like Rockstar ran out of ideas half way through the storyline and went: "I know, let's put the mafia in there!"

There's so many criminal organazations that have seemed to disappear off Rockstar's radar: The Yakuza, The Triads, The British Football Firms, etc.